That sounds like a variation on Oscar Wilde.
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Of course dislike of entire genres is a generalisation and there may be the odd thing in any genre I might like - as indeed with mainstream pop I have occasionally heard something I’ve liked enough to want to hear again. However, taking your reference to jazz, the only jazz I’ve heard yet that I’ve liked has been jazz-rock but distinctly rockier than jazzy, and when it gets jazzier I’ve started to dislike it. Much jazz that I’ve heard is so excruciatingly unpleasant that I want to cover my ears or leave the room, other is just bearable. There is so much I haven’t heard within the genres I know I have a good chance of liking that I don’t see the point in subjecting myself to a lot of unpleasantness trying to find the oddity that I might like.
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Absolutely.
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In a broken dream, I’ve been drinking again.
Gosh, I feel sorry for you. You’re missing out on some great music there.
More Ventilator Blues
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BTW, in answer to the thread question it was much easier to state the genres I dislike instead of listing every “legendary” band of artist within those genres that I’ve heard and disliked, and at the same time it saves naming names that to some people may be their favourites and which might cause afront (as that is how some people seem to take dismissal if their idols) and I have no interest in that - I just like the music I do like.
Me as well, God Only Knows is a work of genius but the rest escapes me completely.
I once found myself at a Beach Boys tribute act do. What a long night that was….
May I just say, Rap is crap!
I dislike a lot of well-structured Beach Boys, but how do you get on with Heroes and Villains?
As for @stuart.ashen and rap, isn’t The Revolution Will Not Be Televised the first rap song we all heard, followed by Whitey’s On The Moon?
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Seconded! And let us not forget The Last Poets!
I’d rather listen any day to them, Gil or indeed The Message than most of the prog nonsense, guitar shredders or stadia-favourites, or the smooth, gutless ‘jazz’ so beloved here…
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The Last Poets, yes.
The Last Poets, from Scotland, on occasion.
Lostprophets, no.
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There are some bands I still can stand. Beatles, Joy Division/New Order, Kingdom Come (Arthur Brown), Mothers of Invention before Hot Rats, a few early 70s albums by Stone the Crows, Laibach, Einsturzende Neubauten, Brian Eno with or without Robert Fripp, Pulp/Jarvis Cocker. Propaganda, The The, first two albums by Art of Noise, Gentle Giant, And Holger Hiller of course!
Some i really hate … Queen (especially after they broke the UN embargo against playing for the apartheid regime), Pink Floyd, van Morrison, Pretenders, Siouxie & the Banshees, Greenslade, Status Quo are terrible. As is Slade and Marc Bolan/T.Rex, Smiths, Elvis Costello. Jethro Tull. Cream. Deep Purple/Zeppelin/Sabbath.
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Last Poets from Scotland?
I only know the US…
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Stupid typo! Sorry.
You are right - the Scottish crew were the Lost Poets.
Ron Butlin, Liz Lochhead and Jim Hutcheson were among them iirc.
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You really hate Pink Floyd? Why? Just curious.
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I am surprised by some of the hate and vitriol expressed here about some groups. There are many groups whose music I dislike, and even might avoid hearing - but hate? The nearest I can get to that is Stockhausen and some (mainly free-form, I think it’s called) jazz. Never really got into jazz - much of it is formulaic and unpleasant. Still, hate seems a little excessive.
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I dislike much of the formulaic pop music from the 90’s onwards but I can always turn it off,
I am with you on both bits.
Some people here just seem to enjoy venting about music that lots of us bang on about that doesn’t work for them.
Mind you, Chapman & Chinn in the 70s and Sock, Napkin & Waterbed in the 80s were just as formulaic - we were just involved enough in the music scene to navigate past them to the music we did want.
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To be fair, that’s rather what the OP invited!
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